The welcome screen should give some information on the purpose of the MOO and tell people (including guests) how to connect (or how to obtain a character). Most MOOs have a set of standard commands enabled like ``who'' displaying who is on the MOO.
Let's look a few of those screens:
------------------------------------------------------- CollegeTown 4/95
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| EDUCATION FOR SERVICE |
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| |_ / \ _ | |
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| _ _ | / \_ ______ |
|_ | | _| WELCOME | | | | PLEASE REMEMBER:
| _| | | TO | |PLAQUE| |
| _ | COLLEGETOWN | |______| | THIS IS AN ACADEMIC
| | _ | | | _ | ENVIRONMENT *NOT* A
|__________| |__________| << GAME >>
COLLEGETOWN is a text based virtual ACADEMIC community running on a NeXT
computer at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, IA. Users who appreciate our
educational mission are welcome to participate in COLLEGETOWN events.
connect name password PLEASE TYPE
connect guest 'HELP MANNERS'.
@quit
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WELCOME TO
DIVERSITY UNIVERSITY
(East Campus)
Running version 1.7.8p4 of the LambdaMOO server
Address: MOO.DU.ORG (192.101.98.5) 8888
Diversity University MOO campuses are Internet locations for serious
experimentation in network-based, interactive teaching, learning and social
services. Those wishing to further this community development are welcome!
The DU administration would like to thank the many volunteers contributing
time and effort to further this vision. We would also like to thank the
Internet Multicasting Service, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU),
and the Annenberg/CPB Project for their support in this venture.
Supporters of this project are not responsible for the content of any material
which may be found on this system.
connect guest | to have a look around
@who | to see who is online
@quit | to exit Diversity University
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...the virtual meeting place for biologists.
Type:
'purpose' to read a statement on BioMOO's purpose
'connect (userid) (password)' to connect, for example: connect Elmer stu888ph
'guest (name) (any-password)' to connect as a named guest,
'connect Guest' to connect as an anonymous guest,
'create' for information on how to get your own userid,
'who' just to see who's logged in right now,
'@quit' to disconnect, either now or later.
Multimedia interface (WWW): http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il:8888
For human help please email to Gustavo@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il.
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